Hi Les,I've just read this thread(yes, I'm just a bit behind with my reading), and wanted to tell you how happy I am for you that you have a brand new Mini Torii. I just received my new MT about 2 weeks ago! I'm just THRILLED with the performance of this little jewel out of the box! My tubes are: JJ EZ81, Raytheon OC2, GE 12AU7A, Tung-Sol 6V6GT(Made in Russia), Russian OA3. These are the stock tubes and it sounds fantastic!! I play mostly LP's on a Linn LP12 with my old Marantz Imperial 6-G speakers. They're 93% efficiency so I have more than enough volume to blast the walls down(I use 6 or 7 clicks on the attenuators) I would be very interested to hear your opinions of the Mini after having yours for ~10 months now. Enjoy!! TubeNut

I'll be posting a bunch of spare tubes I have that work with the Mini Torii, for sale in a few days so keep an eye out! It'll include a pair of 6L6's, 6V6's, 12AU7's, some tube regulators and some reliable EZ81's....I had 3 different set's of JJ EZ81's fail on me before :/

The Mini is a fine amp...but tube rolling is subjective and system dependent...so with that said...try a pair of RFT EZ80's...very nice and not expensive. The new production 6V6's are very good and I'm not sure chasing NOS is worth the effort. I do have a pair of Pope/Philips 6V6's that *I* like though.